FLOWS   2014, HD Video, 14 min, commissioned by the 1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Cartagena, Colombia. Casa Museo Arte y Cultura la Presentation, Cartagena. 

Singing and listening is the media that you connect with people. FLOWS is a single channel video installation in which Jenny Marketou explores human voice and singing as the esthetics for social action which transcends identity, place, cultural value, labor, politics and memory. Although a non speaker of Spanish while living in Palenque de San Basilio, San Juan, and the urban periphery of Cartagena in Colombia the artist was able to film FLOWS which reveals an astonishing creative cultural force through the spontaneous and baring voices of legendary black women singers of Afro Colombian Diaspora whose voices and lyrics are crafted our of their everyday life, signatures of their history, their rituals, and an expression of protest against the destruction of their identity and global assimilation. The video also contains ambient sounds from the forests of the region as well as a series of very short improvisations composed by Christopher Hoffmann a known cellist in New York and which were recorded as he was listening to the video recording of the women singers. These compelling interwining various voices is a symbolic sonic montage which addresses various systems of knowledge from one side the performative aspects in the production of the semantic space and the cultural value of the vernacular and political of the authentic voices of women versus the western, production, perception and reception, of formal and controlled instrumental voice of the cello.